The detail was in the sock, quirky rather than ordinary. In a shoe with a perfect or patched sole. The eye of the camera that lingers on a detail to tell the personality of the guests even with a single image. The search for detail was the hallmark of the director by Paolo Beld, television director who became very popular with Fabio Fazio. He was born in Novara 66 years ago and today the light of his cameras goes out. My father was a well-known advertiser from Novara, his were the commercials of Pavesini and Bialetti, but as a young man I identified advertising as a symbol of standardization – he said in an interview -; so after the debut at Radio Azzurra and Onda Novara, where almost by chance I discovered that I was making people laugh, I entered Antenna 3 thanks to Beppe Recchia. They put me to make photocopies and it was my luck. I could go around my studios and when I met a technician, an operator or an editor I would ask for explanations tricks that I would need for the future. In those years I met Walter Chiari, Teo Teocoli, Enzo Tortora.
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So Beld lands at the then Fininvest (now Mediaset) in programs like Never say Banzai e Never say world, while he owes his debut in the variety to Antonio Ricci who calls him to direct Lone wolf before and Matryoshka then. His Rai professional life since the 1990s. Lubrano sent me the turning point program: my first day as a Rai director. An operator frames a guest with raised trousers and sock at half-mast, I can’t resist and launch him live. It was a scandal. Dare what no one had ever dared before: the delay in the details, the attention to minutiae, the search for something apparently insignificant that reveals the intimacy of the interviewed characters.
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The partnership with Fazio is the longest and most profitable one, begins with Right of reply (there were also Sandro Paternostro, Oreste De Fornari, Enrico Magrelli) and continued from 1993 to 2009 with Those who football (not only with Fazio but also with Simona Ventura) where he becomes a rare case of a director who sometimes is also in front of the cameras, but above all from the control room that Beld talks about: his support for Fiorentina emerges with every goal scored with the team anthem shot at full blast. I will be with Fazio again for My soul and twice in Sanremo (the third with Panariello): here too he dares a lot, framing – unheard of – the spectators of the Ariston who slept during the Festival.
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Friend of Celentano (signed Svalutation, Rockpolitik, The bad situation, Rock Economy), Beld has written 3 books, where there is all his love for football (viola) and directing; two on Fiorentina and one that was his manifesto: Why frame your feet?
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